My oldest just brought in his Arduino and breadboard and said, "Look what I made! Press the button!"
I press it and it started playing "Never Gonna Give You Up" on the piezo speaker.
My oldest just brought in his Arduino and breadboard and said, "Look what I made! Press the button!"
I press it and it started playing "Never Gonna Give You Up" on the piezo speaker.
Weird that Zuck's announcement of testing Mastodon for Threads doesn't include a link to a post on Mastodon that came from Threads.
Of course everyone is totally taking his word for it without any evidence.
Dammit! The frickin' dishwasher doesn't work. I had all that trouble with it awhile back and managed to fix it myself, but now the problem is that it fills and drains but the main motor doesn't seem to run. There must not be any feedback in the design because the wash timer happily counts down but there's no sound and nothing is happening.
Kind of sick of this GE dishwasher and maybe it's time to just replace the whole thing.
Ended up with a new Maytag dishwasher which may or may not be good (it was often second place on various lists I came across and it was on sale presumably because its now the “old” model). It took over 3 hours to install the stupid thing myself. Very grumpy. This is the 4th dishwasher in 9 years. A few months ago we needed a new fridge and new tires. Earlier this year was a new water softener and water heater. We’ve gone from no debt to ~2 months behind. I don’t imagine it’s going to get better.
@dustin oh geez. WiFi?! lol. Our model is simpler than that. I hope it lasts, but I have real doubts about modern appliances.
Did I just subtly reword a 10 line source code comment so that the left and right ends of each line were perfectly aligned with each other so the entire block of text looked cooler?
Yes. Yes I did.
When the kids were very young, Christmas shopping was fun and easy. We could get goofy things and they'd chew on them or whatever and it was fine. But as they got older, it has become more stressful because they want specific things that are often expensive (or impossibly expensive) and the odds that they change their mind about what they *really* wanted in the time between ordering and Christmas is very very high and then it ends up being disappointing for them or something and what can you do?
Time for some SG-1 (season 10) and a nice steaming mug of Irish hot chocolate.
It’s a bit confusing whenever SG-1 and Atlantis reuse actors for different characters a season or two apart.
Seems legit.
Sheppard: “He's worse than Dr. McCoy!”
Teyla: “Who?”
Sheppard: “The TV character that Dr. Beckett plays in real life…”
Ranting online about stuff often brings out a lot of "this happened to me too" stories that sometimes shed light on things or, at the very least, provide for a moment of commiseration. That's the main reason I do it. I mean, I'm not going to change the mind of a national chain of home improvement stores by ranting on Mastodon. I'm not going to change their mind by calling customer service, either. Or leaving a review on Yelp or something. There's little anyone can do except commiserate, tbh.
It bugs when I see serious comments about programming topics prefaced with something like, "I've been doing this for 10 years," followed by some ridiculously strongly stated opinion declared as an immutable fact.
Where do people get this confidence from? I've been professionally programming nearly 30 years at this point and I don't ever feel confident enough to assume I know *anything* for sure.
In fact, the older I get, the less sure I am and the more I've forgotten.
Boost if you're old enough to remember ZMODEM.
@hacks4pancakes shocking!
I am currently neither hip nor with it.
It’s been thick and hazy and smokey outside all day today and I can even smell burnt wood in the air. The AQI outside is 165. As far as I know this is from the wildfires in Canada, I think? I’m in Iowa.
Every year I wish Apple would post the WWDC sessions videos earlier than 10am pacific time. It feels like I end up wasting half the day waiting for them to show up.
@ole this explains SO MUCH. Holy crap.
Does Safari keep track of the random passwords it generates? Every now and then I sign up for a site and it doesn't seem to detect that I'm making a new account and so doesn't offer to save my credentials. I get to the next screen and now I've lost my randomly generated password!
You may know me from Twitterrific or Frenzic: Overtime or as the ex-galactic president. I'm just this guy, you know?
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